Top 237 Phony Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

I cannot be phony.

I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.

I have been able to sniff out a phony.

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

Hillary Clinton is a world class liar. Just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing - or her phony landing in Bosnia, where she said she was under attack, and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers. A total and self-serving lie. Brian Williams' career was destroyed for saying less.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.

I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

I'm not a phony. I'm the real deal.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

People can spot a phony and I think young people can spot a phony.

The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.

You know your inside, and you know the others' outside: that creates jealousy. They know your outside, and they know their inside: that creates jealousy. Nobody else knows your inside. There you know you are nothing, worthless. And the others on the outside look so smiling. Their smiles may be phony, but how can you know that they are phony? Maybe their hearts are also smiling. You know your smile is phony, because your heart is not smiling at all, it may be crying and weeping.

And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.

There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...

People can see through a phony.

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

Younger viewers have a very strong detector for what's real and legit and what's phony or pandering.

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

My real name is Julie Tawny Kitaen. I know it sounds phony but it isn't.

I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

I don't even like wrestling really small guys a lot of the time. It just feels phony.

It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

Godard is a phony to me. His technique is great, but he just keeps replaying the same political rhetoric.

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

Country fans can sniff out phony from a mile away.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

You don't want to come in and be phony and be someone you're not.

Cuz phony faggots I froze, it's a fact, I flip fast on foes with fabulous fantastic flows.

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

I hated L.A., so spread out, so phony. It's like Vegas. It isn't real.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

I'd much rather be a one-hit wonder than a phony.

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!